On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:30:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following idea is fortunately not related to the UI or implementation... > > The idea is intended to simplify entering a word, or a phrase, that has > previously been semantically marked. Here's how it'd work from a user's > perspective: > > * The user enters e.g. the text: > Henrik went to work with his Apple MacBook, reading mail on > the train. > * The user marks 'Henrik' as a noun, and 'Apple MacBook' as a > brand/product. > > * Let's now say that the user wants to write something that uses > words/phrases that have already been marked, e.g. something like this: > > The emails Henrik received were to saucy to be read on his > Apple MacBook on the train... > > Is there a way that LyX could remember previously phrases, and easily let > the user select from these? Or automatically recognize words and offer to > mark them in a similar manner? (I'd probably be annoyed by the latter > behaviour) > > Here's one possible way: > > * The user starts writing > > The emails > > and then presses some keyboard shortcut, which activates a regular > expression search for previously entered phrases. So the user > here only has to type 'He' and then press e.g. ENTER to get 'Henrik' > inserted with the right markup. > > Another possible way might be to have a keyboard shortcut that the user can > press after having written 'Henrik', and have the word being marked/tagged > in the same way that the last word 'Henrik' was tagged. > > Anyway, this is just a thought. > > Is this idea worth putting in bugzilla? > > The advantage I can see with this idea is that it encourages and simplifies > using semantic markup, even while writing text. > > /Christian
A 'phrase buffer' would be more generally useful. - Martin
